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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

Yeah, I didn't really fill in the gap. I agree, with you on Saban, but the whole Mack Brown affair seems so bizarre. Is he getting fired? Forced into retirement? Will he coach the team tomorrow, let alone next week or the bowl game or next season? He's kind of just left hanging with all these rumors swirling about his status and Saban being wooed to replace him.

Truth is, I always felt the Saban-to-Texas stuff began with obnoxiously hubristic Texas fans acting like, we're tired of Mack Brown and we can just get Nick Saban to replace him because we're Texas and of course he'll come here if we ask. And the media turned that into actual rumors. Saban gave them credence by allowing his people to insinuate that he'd go there, but until then there was nothing to it.

As for Brown's supposed retirement, who the hell knows what the so-called sources were on that one. Somebody thought they knew something, I guess.

“True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise — the other, loyalty.”

He can still take another job. All the extension does is make hime more money. He is leaving. He is a serial competitor. He mauy not be going to UT but the Houston Texans and Washington Bravehearts have to be appealing. At 62, you are probably tired of recruiting. Money talks, BS takes a trip down the street on the uneven pavement.

Supposedly, it will be worth between $7 and $7.5 million a year, so anything between about a 20% to 28% increase in his current play depending. In other articles, Alabama people supposedly said they were totally willing to pay him basically whatever too, so this might qualify. If the supposed interest from Texas factored into the raise, I cannot say that I would be shocked.

"Funny isn't it, how naughty dentists always make that one fatal mistake."

No 1, it's Herbstreit, so ya....No 2, Herbstreit works for ESPN who wants nothing more than SEC Domination and probably set this news out there to help Alabama with recruits, etc. My own conspiracy theory.